Cliff Gorman

Cliff Gorman

Nacimiento : 1936-10-13, Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Muerte : 2002-09-05

Historia

Cliff Gorman was an American stage and screen actor. He won an Obie award in 1968 for the stage presentation of The Boys in the Band, and went on to reprise his role in the 1970 film version. Gorman and his wife cared for his fellow The Boys in the Band cast member Robert La Tourneaux in the last few months of his battle against AIDS, until La Tourneaux's death on June 3, 1986 Gorman died of leukemia in 2002, aged 65, although his final film, Kill the Poor, was not released until 2003. He was survived by his wife, Gayle Gorman.

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Cliff Gorman
Cliff Gorman

Películas

Kill the Poor
Yakov
When a marriage of convenience becomes the real thing, Joe moves his pregnant French wife to a tenement building on New York's Lower East Side. The street is like a war zone with none of the nostalgic appeal that Joe remembers from tales of his immigrant grandparents arriving in the same neighborhood with a new life. This is the urban frontier filled with comic mixture of gentrifies, homeboys, dealers and local residents simply bent on staying a float
King of the Jungle
Jack
Seymore is a young man with the mind of a child. He loves three things in life: basketball, sneaking out for cigarettes, and his mother. But all life's simple pleasures are brutally torn from him when he witnesses his mother gunned down by a neighborhood punk. Now Seymore must overcome the child within as he rises up to fight for some kind of justice. It's a fight that will take him out into the streets where there are few friends and many enemies -- and one of them is a killer who wants him silenced.
Ghost Dog, el camino del samurai
Sonny Valerio
"Ghost Dog" (Whitaker) es un asesino a sueldo de Nueva York, un hombre de actitud tranquila en su vida diaria que se rige bajo el código de honor de los antiguos samuráis.
The 60s
Father Daniel Berrigan
The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam, Michael becomes involved in the civil rights movement and after campaigning for Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy becomes involved in radical politics, and Katie gets pregnant, moves to San Francisco and joins a hippie commune. Meanwhile, the Taylors are an African-American family living in the deep South. When Willie Taylor, a minister and civil rights organizer, is shot to death, his son Emmet moves to the city and eventually joins the Black Panthers, serving as a bodyguard for Fred Hampton.
El ocaso
Nick the Greek
En un país de América Central, la reportera Helen McNutty y un fotógrafo, que es su novio, son detenidos por la policía secreta tras haber sido testigos de las atrocidades cometidas por los militares contra un grupo de manifestantes. Un año más tarde, ya en su país, Helen se ha convertido en una persona solitaria que tiene problemas en el trabajo y que bebe y fuma compulsivamente mientras pasa las noches en vela. Con el pretexto de hacer un reportaje, entra en contacto con una clínica para supervivientes de torturas. Anna Lenke, la directora del centro, decide someterla a tratamiento, al detectar en ella los síntomas característicos de las personas que han sufrido tortura. (FILMAFFINITY)
A Silent Betrayal
Greenburg
Police lieutenant Frank Janek is investigating a series of murders in a building owned by a famous Broadway producer.
The Forget-Me-Not Murders
Aaron
A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is thought to be targeting the policeman's god-daughter.
Hoffa, un pulso al poder
Solly Stein
Jimmy Hoffa fue un carismático y controvertido líder sindical. Criado en los barrios pobres de Detroit, creó el sindicato más grande del mundo. Su condición de líder sindical lo llevó a los más altos círculos del poder, llegando a enfrentarse con los Kennedy. Fue considerado por muchos el "símbolo viviente de la corrupción". Acusado de estar en tratos con la mafia y de participar en el juego ilegal, fue encarcelado. Amnistiado por el presidente Nixon, luchó por recuperar su antigua posición. El 30 de julio de 1975 salió de su casa para reunirse con un poderoso mafioso y desapareció misteriosamente...
La noche y la ciudad
Phil Nasseros
Un mediocre abogado decide, de repente, dedicarse a promocionar combates de boxeo. Basada en la película "Noche en la ciudad" (1950), de Jules Dassin.
Terror on Track 9
Sgt. Aaron Greenberg
A New York detective tracks a serial killer who injects his victims with poison at Grand Central Station.
Vestige of Honor
Sanderson
A hospital administrator and a former Green Beret join forces to try to aid a group of Montagnards, a pro-American people who were trapped in Thailand following the Vietnam War.
Murder Times Seven
Aaron Greenberg
For the third time, Lieutenant Janek is forced to face alone a difficult case, which has some brutal murders that way involving some bigwigs of the underworld. The case is complicated by the fact that one of the victims is his friend Ray Kiley. During the investigation Janek finds out that Kiley worked for counterintelligence.
Murder in Black and White
Aaron Greenberg
A recently appointed black police commissioner is killed. So, Frank Janek is assigned to investigate.
Internal Affairs
Aaron Greenberg
A skilled police detective in a case involving the strange, sadistic murder of a young prostitute who has been killed in exactly the same fashion as a young nightclub singer in Saigon during the Vietnam War. At the same time, the detective attempts to ferret out corruption in the police ranks.
Doubletake
Aaron
Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is called on to head the team of detectives investigating. Meanwhile, Janek is trying to find out why an old friend and colleague committed suicide, which eventually leads to a romantic situation with photographer Caroline Wallace and the discovery of some major corruption among his superiors, all of which has little or nothing to do with the murder story.
Ángel
Lt. Andrews
Molly es una chica de 15 años que va al instituto y es una de las mas inteligentes. Pero por la noche lleva una doble vida, es prostituta en el Sunset Boulevard y lleva como sobrenombre, Angel. Con ello puede mantener sus estudios ya que vive sola. Un asesino necrófilo en serie ha matado a dos amigas suyas y ella ha sido testigo, por lo tanto se ha convertido en su objetivo principal.
Cocaine and Blue Eyes
Riki Anatole
O.J. Simpson plays Michael Brennen, a San Francisco private eye who gets dragged into a drug-smuggling operation while searching for the girlfriend of a deal client, leading Brennen to a politically prominent family.
El bunker
Joseph Goebbels
Narra los últimos días del dictador Adolf Hitler y de su entorno en mayo de 1945 en su búnker en Berlín, así como el clima de demencia que reinaba en el Bunker en esas últimas horas de muchos de sus habitantes. Hitler, hombre senil que pasa de la tranquilidad a una violencia extrema, no admite su derrota.
Secuestro en Central Park
Gus Soltic
Un psicópata ex convicto secuestra por error a la hija de Boyd, un ex-policia. La policía de Nueva York es incapaz de encontrar al responsable. Boyd decide investigar por su cuenta, con la ayuda de Marie, para encontrar a su hija.
All That Jazz (Empieza el espectáculo)
Davis Newman
Joe Gideon, un famoso coreógrafo y director de Broadway y Hollywood, vive una vida marcada por los excesos de todas clases. Su corazón le da un primer aviso en forma de infarto y los doctores le previenen de que si no cambia de actitud su cuerpo no aguantará más. Pero Joe solo sabe vivir de una manera.
Una mujer descasada
Charlie
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
Having Babies II
Arthur Magee
The story of various couples who get caught up in the personal and emotional crises of birth, adoption and hospitalization, and also of the hospital and health care workers who take care of them.
Brinks: The Great Robbery
Danny Conforti
In this telling of the infamous 1950 robbery, James McNally is portrayed as the one gang member who maintains his silence in the face of extreme police pressure. When he is sent up to prison and sees the other gang members letting him take all the heat, he still doesn't come clean to the cops. He feels a loyalty to his best friend, who was also in on the crime. But what will his best friend choose to do?
The Silence
Stanley Greenberg
A cadet at West Point is subjected to "internal exile," which means that other students refuse to talk to him or acknowledge his existence, after he is accused of violating the school's code of honor.
Strike Force
Det. Joey Gentry
Un equipo formado por un agente del F.B.I., un oficial de policía de Nueva York y un policía del estado, se enfrentan a una poderosa red de narcotraficantes que no les pondrán las cosas nada fáciles.
Desafío al mundo
Yafet Hemlekh
El lujoso yate de recreo Rosebud es secuestrado por unos terroristas palestinos. A bordo se encuentran cinco herederas multimillonarias que organizan una acción de rescate con la ayuda del agente británico Larry Martin y del espía israelí Hamlekh.
Unos policías muy ladrones
Tom
El mayor robo jamás conocido en Nueva York está a punto de cometerse... Dos policías, Joe y Tom, hartos de su bajo salario y de la corrupción que reina en el cuerpo, deciden pasarse al otro lado de la ley. Convirtiéndose en criminales, planean el mayor robo que jamás ha conocido Wall Street. Para ello, se ponen en contacto con un mafioso, Patsy O'Neill, con el que llegan a un acuerdo. Tom y Joe robarán todo lo que Patsy quiera, a cambio de la sustanciosa cantidad de 2.000.000 de dólares. La fecha elegida, coincide con la celebración de un desfile en honor a unos astronautas que han regresado a la Tierra...
Class of '63
Mickey Swerner
A jealous husband uses a college reunion to gauge whether or not his wife is still in love with her old flame.
The Chicago Conspiracy Trial
A BBC-produced docudrama based on trial transcripts and aired in the United Kingdom in October 1970
Los chicos de la banda
Emory
Adaptación de una exitosa obra de Mart Crowley. Nueve chicos se reúnen para una fiesta de cumpleaños; ocho de ellos se declaran abiertamente gays, y el noveno sostiene que no lo es. Primer film con homosexuales con final no trágico producido en Hollywood.
Justine
Toto
In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, the beautiful and mysterious wife of a Coptic banker. He observes the affairs of her heart and incidentally discovers that she is involved in a plot against the British, meant to arm the Jewish underground in Palestine. The plot finally fails, Justine is sent to jail and Darley decides to return to England.